Topscorer standings
You are going to need the following tools:
- Sportmonks' API token
- Code editor (Visual studio used in examples)
- Postman (optional)
You can find a link to another article where we discuss the tools in-depth on our Developer Tools Guide.
What league and specifically what season interests you? For this guide, we’ll go with the 20/21 season of the Scottish Premiership (league id: 501, season id: 17141).
https://soccer.sportmonks.com/api/v2.0/topscorers/season/17141?api_token={API_TOKEN}
However, we will slightly modify the request because we want the player and team names and not just their player id. We can do this for all three top scorers, which are:
- Goalscorers → players who have scored a goal
- Assistscorers → players who gave assists
- Cardscorers → players who have received yellow or red cards
We then plug the nested includes
goalscorers.playerandgoalscorers.teamto the request. So we could for example request everything:https://soccer.sportmonks.com/api/v2.0/topscorers/season/17141?api_token={API_TOKEN}&include=goalscorers.player,goalscorers.team,assistscorers.player,assistscorers.team,cardscorers.player,cardscorers.team
It’s up to you how much data you want to receive. For our example, we are only interested in the goal-scoring top scorers. So we’ll use this URL:
https://soccer.sportmonks.com/api/v2.0/topscorers/season/17141?api_token={API_TOKEN}&include=goalscorers.player,goalscorers.team
"position": 1,
"season_id": 17141,
"player_id": 173059,
"team_id": 66,
"stage_id": 77447501,
"goals": 6,
"penalty_goals": 1,
"type": "goals",
"player": {
"data": {
"player_id": 173059,
"team_id": 66,
"country_id": 1161,
"position_id": 4,
"common_name": "K. Nisbet",
"display_name": "Kevin Nisbet",
"fullname": "Kevin Nisbet",
"firstname": "Kevin",
"lastname": "Nisbet",
"nationality": "Scotland",
"birthdate": "08/03/1997",
"birthcountry": "Scotland",
"birthplace": "Glasgow",
"height": "180 cm",
"weight": null,
"image_path": "https://cdn.sportmonks.com/images/soccer/placeholder.png"
}
},
"team": {
"data": {
"id": 66,
"legacy_id": 702,
"name": "Hibernian",
"short_code": "HIB",
"twitter": "@HibernianFC",
"country_id": 1161,
"national_team": false,
"founded": 1875,
"logo_path": "https://cdn.sportmonks.com/images//soccer/teams/2/66.png",
"venue_id": 8946,
"current_season_id": 17141
We can see that the Scottish Premiership’s top scorer is Kevin Nisbet from Hibernian with six goals including one penalty goal.
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